The Foundation Establishment stage has its own set of difficulties, and the Nascent Soul stage has its own set of challenges. Just as a three-year-old child struggles with the prospect of starting kindergarten, adults who don't need to go to school suffer even more.

Xu Ni's eyes darted around, and she asked in a low voice, "Senior, how many spirit stones did you need for cultivation each day before?"

In the crowd, Shenxian'er gripped the tree branch tightly, as was her habit.

"Let me calculate," Li Changzhou wasn't quite sure. "I haven't seen any mid-grade or high-grade spirit stones, but if I'm just talking about low-grade spirit stones... one breath would probably yield over a hundred million."

...He's never even seen a mid-grade or high-grade spirit stone, yet he dares to say that a single breathing exercise costs hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit stones?

It was fake after all!

Li Changzhou was referring to breathing, not exhalation or inhalation.

Of course, the primordial divine body does not need spiritual energy; all things in heaven and earth can be absorbed as essence.

The little Azure Dragon was bought by the Azure Moon Sect for only 1,000 spirit stones.

They lowered the price, but not by much, since it's such a small business. Who knows when they'll break even?

Even if the Azure Moon Sect buys it, it's not a Spirit Crystal. As far as the sect is concerned, all cultivators within its territory are "Little Azure Dragons".

Their main goal was research, such as turning the little green dragon's physique into a formation, or trying to improve the little green dragon's bloodline.

On the deck, all sorts of aquatic creatures appeared one after another, which was a real eye-opener.

Compared to others, the anchovies they kept in their fish tank were only average.

Just as Xu Ni and Shen Xian'er were watching with envy, Jiang Xiaoyue pulled them out of the crowd and to the edge of the deck.

The place was filled with pale-faced, bewildered monks.

Some lost limbs, some became corpses forever, and some wept bitterly while holding a blood-stained piece of cloth.

A lively cacophony and a deathly silence coexisted on the deck.

"If it weren't for you, senior, no one would know we're dead," Jiang Xiaoyue said in a deep voice. "We will go to Humingfang, but we must remember this lesson and be careful in everything we do."

The two nodded solemnly.

"Dragon Gate!"

"The Dragon Gate has been breached!"

The three of them quickly squeezed to the edge of the ship's gunwale.

Watered by the blood of countless cultivators and aquatic creatures, a massive dragon gate appears and disappears on Wangyue Lake.

The legend of the moon falling and forming Wangyue Lake is the most legendary story about Wangyue Lake, followed by the legend of leaping over the Dragon Gate.

Each time the Dragon Gate is crossed, a drop of dragon blood is extracted. As long as you cross the Dragon Gate, you can possess this drop of dragon blood. If you cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage, you can even possess a dragon body.

Countless aquatic creatures surged toward the Dragon Gate like a tidal wave, forming endless waves in the lake.

They tried, failed, tried again, and failed again.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, no aquatic creatures succeeded.

In the sky, seven dragon heads emerge from the clouds, overlooking Wangyue Lake.

On the seven highest mountains surrounding Wangyue Lake, magnificent beams of light descended, and the enormous body of the Nascent Soul Ancestor sat cross-legged on the horizon.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the Dragon Gate.

"Make way, let me handle this!"

A manta ray rode the huge waves, soaring on the crest, and suddenly rushed to the forefront of countless spirit creatures, heading towards the distant Dragon Gate.

Everyone held their breath.

One hundred zhang, fifty zhang, thirty zhang...

The immense power of the dragon knocked the waves down, but a tiny ripple beneath the manta ray, like the peak of a mountain, lifted the manta ray, sending it soaring into the blue sky and leaping over the dragon gate.

Twenty zhang!

Ten zhang!

Xu Ni clung tightly to the gunwale, Jiang Xiaoyue stared intently, and Shen Xian'er gripped a tree branch.

"Pfft!" The manta ray spat out a mouthful of blood.

The crest of the wave shattered instantly, and it fell irrevocably.

Above the clouds, the seven dragon heads showed expressions of regret.

"Hmm?" Qilong leaned closer.

【Um? 】

In mid-air, just as the manta ray was about to fall, it spun its bat-like body, brushed past the sea surface, and once again stirred up a wave, rising up from the sea.

In the blink of an eye, we were only twenty meters away from crossing the Dragon Gate!

[Fairy, give me the magic...]

Boom!!

The manta ray exploded in mid-air.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"Who!" the seven dragons roared, their cries echoing through the air.

Everyone covered their ears and curled up in pain.

"Hehe." A Nascent Soul ancestor chuckled, blocking the dragon's roar, "Everyone, don't let a small matter cause a big loss and affect the other water demons' leap over the dragon gate."

"It's you!" A white dragon snaked through the clouds, its thunderous fury about to erupt.

"Bo Feimo, stop!" another white dragon called out to stop them.

The white dragon named Bo Feimo was filled with rage, but he restrained himself from exploding.

"My Lord God?" Shenxian'er didn't notice what Li Changzhou said.

She was so engrossed in watching the dragon leaping over the gate that she lost track of time, and then the dragon's roar made her vision go black.

It's alright now.

This manta ray carries the aura of a player; it was the player who gave it the ability to leap over the dragon gate again.

He was then killed by another player hidden in the crowd.

[Interesting, so many people at such a small lake like Wangyue Lake] Li Changzhou found life interesting.

The fairy found it strange; of course, there were many people at Wangyue Lake.

boom!

At this moment, another water demon bursts out of the waves, taking the lead and rushing towards the Dragon Gate.

The three of them exclaimed in surprise.

It was a woman dressed in white, with beautiful features, standing on a water lotus platform, with a transparent water dragon coiled around her side.

She soared upwards, compressing the distance between herself and the Dragon Gate inch by inch.

The last ten zhang.

"Pfft!" She spat out a small mouthful of blood, and the Water Lotus Terrace swayed precariously.

"go!"

With a flick of its tail, the transparent water dragon crashed headfirst into the Dragon Gate, sending water spraying everywhere and refracting seven colors of light under the sun.

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